Sitemap Problem

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap after installing the TranslatePress plugin. It seems that the multilingual content is not being reflected correctly in your sitemap.

To create a multilingual XML sitemap with Rank Math and TranslatePress, ensure that you have followed these steps:

1. Check Your Sitemap: Visit your sitemap index at yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml to verify if all your multilingual posts or pages are included.
2. Integration: Rank Math should automatically integrate with TranslatePress without any manual action required. If you have done this and still see issues, it might be due to caching or a conflict with another plugin.
3. Flush Cache: If you are using any caching plugins, try flushing the cache and see if that resolves the issue.
4. Health Check: You can also use the Health Check plugin to identify any potential conflicts with other plugins or themes.

If the problem persists after trying these steps, we recommend replying to this ticket with more details about your site, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.

Thank you for raising this concern!

Sources:
How to Perform SEO for Multiple Languages Using Rank Math and TranslatePress » Rank Math

Hello,

We checked your sitemap but were not able to replicate the issue. Please check the screenshot in the sensitive data section for your reference.

However, the TranslatePress SEO pack addon integration adds the translated URLs to our sitemap automatically. It can be found at WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Addons > SEO Pack with the premium version of TranslatePress.

You can check this URL for more details: https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/seo-pack/

Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

This is not an issue as XML Sitemaps are designed to be crawled by search engines, not indexed. The X-Robots-Tag: noindex directive ensures that the sitemap itself does not appear in search results, but this does not prevent Google from crawling its contents and indexing the pages listed within it.

There’s no need to worry, as this is the expected behavior for sitemaps.

Please avoid submitting your XML sitemaps to Google Search Console’s URL Inspection tool as that tool is meant for HTML pages.

You can properly submit your sitemap to your Google Search Console account by following this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/

However, if you still wish to remove the noindex tag from your sitemap for any specific reason, you can use the filter in your site:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/http_headers', function( $headers ) {
	if ( '/sitemap_index.xml' !== $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) {
		return $headers;
	}
	unset( $headers['X-Robots-Tag'] );
	return $headers;
} );

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

As for your indexing issues, please check for URLs in your Google Search Console and look for any coverage issues that may tell us why your website is not being indexed on the SERP. You may refer to this guide: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Please note that each time Google uses a sitemap to find a URL, the number of discovered URLs increases by one.

Sitemaps are only one of the few methods Google uses to discover your URLs, so it is fine for your articles to be referred to by other URLs on your site.

When the count of the Discovered URLs is zero or does not match your actual sitemap in your Google Search Console, it means Google didn’t use the sitemap to find the URLs.

Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/zero-discovered-urls-through-sitemap/

Looking forward to helping you.